It's Cold Again

Our short lived burst of warmth has come to an end.  We had light snow this week but it has already melted.  It made the drive to school yesterday less than ideal.  I had training from 6am-7am yesterday and it took me an hour to make a drive that normally takes about 8 minutes.  Once I finally reached home I picked up Jason and the kids and took the kids to school.  This is about 4.5 miles from our home and it took us about an hour to get to school.  So to recap....I drove two hours and didn't actually go anywhere!  The roads were incredibly icey and of course no sanding or salting of the roads had happened so there were accidents everywhere.  I was happy that the roads were much better this morning and it was an easy drive to school.  We have nothing planned for this weekend which will be nice.  The weeks go by so fast.  With the kids in school  and having after school activites the day flies by.  They also have homework every night so from 3:15 until 7pm it seemed like we are constantly going.  Once I pick the kids up from school and bring them to their next activity, we still have to come home and the kids have to do there homework and have dinner.  I also try to make sure they have time to play.  Fortunately they get to play most nights while I make dinner.  I know they feel like they miss out of they don't have their free play time so last night I made Sofia put down her book and go play.  She really wanted to finish her book but I knew if I let her read until bedtime she would regret it when I said, "ok time for bed.".  It was the right decision since she went upstairs and played in the playroom with Ali becuase they had such a great half hour of play before bed.  I am not worried any more about creating a love of books with Sofia.  That girl is definitely hooked!